The bell has just rung, now it’s time to run. You walk quickly out the classroom door, dodging the slow walkers, trying to get to your car before the clock strikes 2:46. If you’re late, expect an actual 30-minute delay, only finally getting out of the parking lot at 3:20 p.m. When burning alive in your furnace of a car, this feels like ages.
The parking lot was designed so that the drop off loop and the parking lot spill out to same exit to County Road 7. This is a very unfortunate design because this means all students, driving themselves or being dropped off/picked up, have to merge into this same road. For a mix of new drivers and impatient people, this is a literal nightmare.
When 15 kindergarteners were asked to design a high school parking lot, their crayon scribbles similarly had a circle-ish shape for what they say is the parking lot. Then, the long, intricate designs of long twisty lines are similar to those of Mead High’s drop of loop with crossing lanes and long twisty pathways, unclear of where you should go…